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The PLA at Home and Abroad - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army

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Exercise-01<br />

APPENDIX - CHAPTER 8<br />

CHINESE COMBINED GROUND EXERCISES<br />

WITH FOREIGN FORCES<br />

Name D<strong>at</strong>es Participants<br />

Apprehension of Illegal<br />

Border Crosser Exercise<br />

Coalition-2003<br />

(also called Joint-2003)<br />

October 10-11,<br />

2002<br />

January 2003<br />

August 6-12, 2003<br />

China, Kyrgyzstan<br />

China, Russia<br />

China, Kazakhstan,<br />

Kyrgyzstan, Russia,<br />

Tajikistan<br />

Friendship-2004 August 6, 2004 China, Pakistan<br />

Joint Mountaineering<br />

Training<br />

August 24, 2004<br />

Peace Mission-2005 August 18-25,<br />

2005<br />

Tianshan-1<br />

Friendship-2006<br />

China,<br />

India<br />

China, Russia<br />

August 24-26,<br />

2006 China, Kazakhstan<br />

December 11-18,<br />

2006<br />

China,<br />

Pakistan<br />

Strike-2007 July 16-29, 2007 China, Thail<strong>and</strong><br />

Peace Mision-2007<br />

August 9-17, 2007<br />

China, Kazakhstan,<br />

Kyrgyzstan, Russia,<br />

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan<br />

427<br />

Oper<strong>at</strong>ional<br />

Loc<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

China-Kyrgyzstan<br />

border region<br />

Heilongjiang<br />

border region<br />

Ucharal, Kazakhstan<br />

<strong>and</strong> Yining,<br />

Ili, Xinjiang<br />

Tajik County,<br />

Xinjiang<br />

Purang County,<br />

Tibet<br />

Total # of Personnel; # of<br />

Chinese<br />

Several hundred; # of Chinese<br />

not specified<br />

Unknown<br />

About 1,300;<br />

700 Chinese<br />

Major Chinese Unit<br />

(elements of)<br />

Xinjiang MD border troops<br />

Heilongjiang MD border troops<br />

Xinjiang MD mechanized infantry,<br />

SOF, PAP, militia, <strong>and</strong> police<br />

More than 200 Xinjiang MD border troops<br />

24;<br />

12 Chinese Tibet MD border defense unit<br />

Multiple loc<strong>at</strong>ions<br />

in Sh<strong>and</strong>ong 10,000; 8,000 Chinese<br />

Alm<strong>at</strong>y, Kazakhstan;<br />

Yining,<br />

Xinjiang<br />

Abbottabad,<br />

Pakistan<br />

Military Sports<br />

Comprehensive<br />

Training Base,<br />

Guangzhou MR<br />

Chelyabinsk,<br />

Russia<br />

Over 700 Chinese<br />

Jinan MR<br />

“Ye Ting” Regiment/127th Light<br />

Mechanized Division/54th Group<br />

<strong>Army</strong>; SOF unit; <strong>PLA</strong>N 1st Marine<br />

Brigade b<strong>at</strong>talion; 15th Airborne<br />

<strong>Army</strong> mechanized infantry<br />

company<br />

Xinjiang PAP border troops;<br />

Xinjiang PAP Anti-Terror Reconnaissance<br />

Unit<br />

More than 400; 100 Chinese Chengdu MR SOF unit<br />

30; 15 Chinese Guangzhou MR SOF unit<br />

More than 7,500; 1,600<br />

Chinese<br />

Xinjiang MD, two Mechanized<br />

Infantry Divisions; airborne<br />

company; SOF company; two<br />

<strong>Army</strong> Avi<strong>at</strong>ion Regiments

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